Urban Climate

Papers
(The TQCC of Urban Climate is 13. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Introducing new morphometric parameters to improve urban canopy air flow modeling: A CFD to machine-learning study in real urban environments150
Characterizing and predicting carbon emissions from an emerging land use perspective: A comprehensive review144
Modelling the microscale spatial distribution of urban air temperature in suburban sprawl117
Cooling effects of urban parks under various ecological factors111
Mapping CO2 traffic emissions within local climate zones in Helsinki108
Effects of ambient temperature on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) mortality in highly polluted region107
Environment-meteorology interactions with PM: Structural equation modeling and regression analysis107
Performance of PALM-4U/WRF model for simulating the urban meteorology of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia99
Filling gaps in urban temperature observations by debiasing ERA5 reanalysis data96
Spatiotemporal trends of selected air quality parameters during force lockdown and its relationship to COVID-19 positive cases in Bangladesh92
Composition, seasonal variation and sources attribution of volatile organic compounds in urban air in southwestern China88
Developing local-climate-zone-based logarithmic law wind profile considering urban morphology86
Harnessing geographic information system and street view imagery for thermal gradient distribution auditing83
Exploration of improvement schemes for simulating LST in Beijing, China over multiple years based on LCZ81
Exploring air temperature variability and socio-demographic inequalities in heat exposure through machine learning: A case study of Maricopa County, Arizona80
Optical properties of carbonaceous aerosols and source impacts in the Lanzhou valley: In-situ observations by means of topographical relief77
Turbulent flow over street canyons with balconies76
Modeling PM2.5 urbane pollution using hybrid models incorporating decomposition and multiple factors76
Advancing urban resilience: A multi-hazard risk perspective on frontier evolution, research hotspots, and practical exploration76
Investigating urban heat islands over Rome and Milan during a summer period through the TERRA_URB parameterization in the ICON model75
Disentangling the non-linear relationships and interaction effects of urban digital transformation on carbon emission intensity73
Study on the efficiency evolution of carbon emissions and factors affecting them in 143 countries worldwide72
Predicting environmental pollutants in the apartment public space: Evaluating the impact of spatial enclosure and monitoring locations72
Projecting temperature-related excess mortality under climate change in six metropolitan cities in China70
Mapping flood risk using a workflow including deep learning and MCDM– Application to southern Iran68
Spatial bias in placement of citizen and conventional weather stations and their impact on urban climate research: A case study of the Urban Heat Island effect in Canada68
Land-surface-physics-based downscaling versus conventional dynamical downscaling for high-resolution urban climate change information: The case study of two cities66
Estimation of space heating CO2 emissions based only on CO2 fluxes observations65
Comparison of PM2.5 around 1893 elementary schools and kindergartens in Tehran over different time windows64
Calibrating the UTCI scale for hot and humid climates through comprehensive year-round field surveys to improve the adaptability62
Attribution of the unprecedented heat event of August 2023 in Barcelona (Spain) to observed and projected global warming61
The study of enhancing urban flood management for riverless cities with high external runoff intrusion characteristics60
Effects of wintertime haze on regional thermal environment and urban heat island in the Yangtze River Delta, China59
Strategies for modelling roofs on large-scale urban drainage models focusing on incomplete data scenarios58
Long-term airborne particle pollution assessment in the city of Coyhaique, Patagonia, Chile58
Photovoltaic mobile charging station for green infrastructure: A data-driven case study58
Parametric comparative analysis of outdoor thermal comfort in a desert climate: A case study of single-family houses in Riyadh58
The time-evolving impact of tree size on nighttime street canyon microclimate: Wind tunnel modeling of aerodynamic effects and heat removal57
Research on the correlation network of carbon emissions and economic between Chinese urban agglomerations57
Assessment of heat exposure risk for urban populations and spatio-temporal patterns: A perspective of urban functional zones in Xi'an, China57
Sources and probabilistic ecological-health risks of heavy metals in road dust from urban areas in a typical industrial city53
Derivation of nonstationary rainfall intensity-duration-frequency curves considering the impacts of climate change and urbanization52
Impact of green roof on human comfort level and carbon sequestration: A microclimatic and comparative assessment in Dhaka City, Bangladesh52
Contributions of urban green spaces for climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation in Dessie city, Northeastern Ethiopia52
Urban Heat Island index based on a simplified micro scale model51
How does green finance achieve urban carbon unlocking? Evidence from China51
Exploring socio-environmental effects on community health in Edmonton, Canada to understand older adult and immigrant risk in a changing climate50
Carbon isotope for carbonyls in roadside air49
Impact of complex relief on heat transfer in urban area49
Impacts of the San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place during the COVID-19 pandemic on urban heat fluxes49
Information fusion and information quality assessment for environmental forecasting48
Green infrastructure indicators to plan resilient urban settlements in Pakistan: Local stakeholder's perspective48
Assessing the impact of telework enhancing policies for reducing car emissions: Exploring calculation methods for data-missing urban areas – Example of a medium-sized European city (Besançon, France)48
Sensitivity study of PBL schemes and soil initialization using the WRF-BEP-BEM model over a Mediterranean coastal city48
Temperature extremes and their future projections in selected Indian cities along with their meteorological subdivisions and temperature homogeneous zones47
Optimal cooling shelter assignment during heat waves using real-time mobile-based floating population data47
Size-segregated atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons down to PM0.1 in urban tropical environment: Temporal distribution, potential sources and human health risk47
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in PM2.5 in the metropolitan zone of Mexico Valley: Impact of air quality management programmes46
Wind-tunnel estimation of mean and turbulent wind speeds within canopy layer for urban campus45
Nonlinear dynamic analysis of the deposited layer-PVC composite structure: A new way for cleaning PVC drainage pipe pollution45
Prognosis of boundary layer assimilative capacity over a landlocked urban district in India: A prelude to exposure risk assessment44
Monitoring thermal environment deterioration and its dynamic response to urban expansion in Wuhan, China44
Community perceptions of flood risks and their attributes: A case study of rural communities of Khipro, District Sanghar, Pakistan43
Impacts of green-blue-grey infrastructures on high-density urban thermal environment at multiple spatial scales: A case study in Wuhan43
Climate policy and inequality in urban areas: Beyond incomes43
Source apportionment of metal ions in ambient air (PM2.5) during firecracker bursting: A case study of Amritsar Diwali on 24 October 202243
Combined impacts of the abnormal and urban heat island effect in Guiyang, a typical Karst Mountain City in China42
Data-driven analysis of weather impacts on urban traffic conditions at the city level41
Design rainfalls under climate change scenarios in South East Queensland, Australia: A Brisbane River case study40
Investigation of ambient BTEX concentrations along a bus rapid transit route in Tabriz: Spatio-temporal variations and health risk assessment40
Energy savings in buildings applying ASHRAE 55 and regional adaptive thermal comfort models40
Urban sprawl can inhibit convection and decrease rainfall over an Amazonian city during a squall line type phenomenon40
Investigation of the decadal unplanned urban expansion influenced surface urban heat island study in the Mosul metropolis39
Investigating the microclimate impacts of blue–green space development in the urban–rural fringe using the WRF-UCM model39
Blue space effects on urban flow and pollution dispersion in a stable atmosphere39
Effect of glazing on the indoor environment in a lift-up canteen38
Inequality of exposure to PM2.5 and ozone among age groups and cities in Japan in 2030 and 205038
Research on PM2.5 road resuspension dust and its population exposure based on sliding grids38
Understanding urban heat vulnerability: Scientometric analysis of five decades of research38
Effects of envelope features on building surface temperature and ventilation performance in 2D street canyons38
Measuring shaded bike lanes for heat stress mitigation with deep learning: A case study in Amsterdam, Netherlands37
The interaction of urban heat mitigation strategies-a case study in Beijing37
Utilizing periodic boundary conditions to save computational resources for assessing building natural ventilation in urban areas37
Heatwave vulnerability and climate policy assessment in Central Europe: A comparative study of Hungarian and Slovak cities36
Reduced-scale numerical investigation of airflow around low-medium density neighbourhoods from the perspectives of drag force and ventilation efficiency36
Estimating urban PM2.5 concentration: An analysis on the nonlinear effects of explanatory variables based on gradient boosted regression tree36
Analyzing urban footprints over four coastal cities of India and the association with rainfall and temperature using deep learning models36
Estimating the daily flooding probability by the compound effect of rainfall and tides in an Amazonian metropolis36
Exploring the supply-demand match and drivers of blue-green spaces cooling in Wuhan Metropolis36
Hourly population exposure index for PM2.5 in urban street canyons36
A novel approach for the defluorination of groundwater using trivalent-metal hydroxide/bone-char composite adsorbent34
Assessment of the TsHARP method for spatial downscaling of land surface temperature over urban regions34
Collaborative scenario building: Engaging stakeholders to unravel opportunities for urban adaptation planning34
The impacts of urban anthropogenic heat and surface albedo change on boundary layer meteorology and air pollutants in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region34
Changes in the carbon mitigation responsibility of Japan's capital city, Tokyo – analysis of power supply shocks due to nuclear power plant accidents34
Observational analyses of a penetrating sea-breeze front in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration33
Investigating the impact of long-term agricultural practices on selected peri-urban aquifers in tropical Southwest India33
Spatial-temporal evolution of urban form resilience to climate disturbance in adaptive cycle: A case study of Changchun city33
Net impact of London Strand-Aldwych pedestrianisation project on air quality and noise33
A canopy shading-based approach to heat exposure risk mitigation in small squares33
Administrative hierarchy, city characteristics and impacts of the Clean Air Act: A quasi-experimental study on PM2.5 pollution in China 2000–202033
Groundwater quality assessment for agricultural purposes at Vellore District of Southern India: A geospatial based study32
The effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the air pollutants concentration during the lockdown in Tehran, Iran32
Impact of courtyard orientation on thermal performance of school buildings' temperature32
Impact of trees with varying size on street canyon flow under isothermal and non-isothermal conditions using water channel PIV measurements32
Sway of aerosol on Atmospheric Boundary Layer influencing air pollution of Delhi32
Downscaled night air temperatures between 2030 and 2070: The case of cities with a complex- and heterogeneous-topography32
Characteristics of PM2.5-bound water-soluble inorganic ions generated during cooking32
Revealing the spatio-temporal characteristics and impact mechanism of carbon emission in China's urban agglomerations31
How does urban heat island differ across urban functional zones? Insights from 2D/3D urban morphology using geospatial big data31
Mega-city development impact on hourly extreme rainfall over the South China Greater Bay Area under near-future climate warming31
Ambient temperature exposure during pregnancy and preterm birth in Brazil31
Quantifying high-resolution carbon emissions driven by land use change in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area31
Effects of thermal perception on restorative benefits by green space exposure: A pilot study in hot-humid China31
Assessing urban heat island intensity and emissions with compressed natural gas in non-commercial vehicles31
Urban heat and pollution island in the Moscow megacity: Urban environmental compartments and their interactions31
Thermal perception in outdoor urban spaces under the Mediterranean climate of Annaba, Algeria31
Understanding the summertime warming in canyon and non-canyon surfaces31
Assessing urban heat island effects through local weather types in Lisbon's Metropolitan Area using big data from the Copernicus service31
Heat vulnerability of Latino and Black residents in a low-income community and their recommended adaptation strategies: A qualitative study31
Air quality monitoring on university campuses as a crucial component to move toward sustainable campuses: An overview31
Flood forecasting in urban reservoir using hybrid recurrent neural network31
Assessment of air pollution by PM10 suspended particles in the urban agglomeration of Central Europe in the period from 2001 to 201831
What factors drive municipal climate adaptation policy? The role of risk management capacity and transnational municipal networks30
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emission interferes with real-time regulatory monitoring of ozone in urban atmosphere30
Outdoor ventilation evaluation and optimization based on spatial morphology analysis in Macau30
Predicting urban Heat Island in European cities: A comparative study of GRU, DNN, and ANN models using urban morphological variables30
Heatwave vulnerability across different spatial scales: Insights from the Dutch built environment30
Future urban expansion and local climate zone changes in relation to land surface temperature: Case of Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Thailand30
Single-site source apportionment modeling of PM2.5-bound PAHs in the Tehran metropolitan area, Iran: Implications for source-specific multi-pathway cancer risk assessment30
Urban climate justice in hot-arid regions: Vulnerability assessment and spatial analysis of socio-economic and housing inequality in Isfahan, Iran29
A Florida urban heat risk index: Assessing weighting and aggregation approaches29
Wind and turbulence relationship with NO2 in an urban environment: a fine-scale observational analysis29
Assessment of urban CO2 budget: Anthropogenic and biogenic inputs29
Correspondence between urbanization and surface wind in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area: Observations and idealized large-eddy simulation29
The synergistic effects of urbanization and an extreme heatwave event on urban thermal environment in Paris29
A geospatial-based framework for rapid simulation of storm-induced flooding and comprehensive risk assessment leveraging GWDD and fuzzy-SWARA28
Characteristics of wet nitrogen deposition and its response to COVID-19 in Danjiangkou reservoir area: A strategic water resource in China28
An enhanced machine learning model for urban air quality forecasting under intense human activities28
Detection and attribution of urbanization impact on summer extreme heat based on nonstationary models in the Yangtze River Delta, China28
Quantifying the urbanization and climate change-induced impact on changing patterns of rainfall Intensity-Duration-Frequency via nonstationary models28
Exploring environmental and meteorological factors influencing greenhouse gas emissions on major urbanized cities in Bangladesh28
Real-world evaluation of driving behaviour and emission performance of motorcycle transportation in developing countries: A case study of Isfahan, Iran28
Urban greenness and its cooling effects are influenced by changes in drought, physiography, and socio-demographics in Los Angeles, CA27
Downscaling ensemble climate projections to urban scale: Brussels's future climate at 1.5 °C, 2 °C, and 3 °C global warming27
Assessing the future groundwater vulnerability of an urban region under variable climatic and land use conditions27
A cost-effective method for producing spatially continuous high-resolution air temperature information in urban environments27
Analysis of decoupling between CO2 emissions and economic growth in China's provincial capital cities: A Tapio model approach27
Evaluating the contribution of climate change and urbanization to the reversal in maximum surface wind speed decline: Case study in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China27
Human heat health index (H3I) for holistic assessment of heat hazard and mitigation strategies beyond urban heat islands27
Bayesian networks and intelligence technology applied to climate change: An application of fuzzy logic based simulation in avalanche simulation risk assessment using GIS in a Western Himalayan region27
Relationship between the North Atlantic sea surface temperature and the summer extreme high temperature in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, China27
Estimation of infiltration efficiency of ambient PM2.5 in urban residences of Beijing during winter27
Effects of masks on physiological and thermal responses of college students during outdoor activities26
Validity of eighteen empirical heat stress indices in predicting the physiological parameters of workers under various occupational and climatic conditions26
Impact of architectural design strategies on the indoor natural ventilation of public residential buildings in Singapore26
Determination of water quality indicator using deep hierarchical cluster analysis26
Long-term measurements for investigating the vertical thermodynamics of an urban boundary layer with high-rise buildings26
Spatial-temporal changes of compound temperature-humidity extremes in humid subtropical high-density cities: An observational study in Hong Kong from 1961 to 202026
High land surface temperatures (LSTs) disproportionately affect vulnerable socioeconomic groups in Barranquilla, Colombia26
Investigating the dynamic pattern of regional heat health risks: A case study of Guangdong Province, China26
Spatial-Temporal analysis of urban environmental variables using building height features26
Investigation of urban heat island and climate change and their combined impact on building cooling demand in the hot and humid climate of Qatar26
Investigating the cooling effects of land cover and landscape patterns surrounding rivers: Insights from the subtropical city of Changsha, China26
Feminization of surface temperature: Environmental justice and gender inequality among socioeconomic groups26
Impact of mobility restrictions on NO2 concentrations in key Latin American cities during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic26
Compound hot and ozone extremes in urban China25
A new microclimate zoning method based on multivariate statistics: The case of Reunion Island25
Pollutants and weathering compounds on medieval bricks of historic buildings from Brasov (Transylvania, Romania)25
Study on the hydraulic conductivity of plastic concrete vertical cutoff walls25
Development of current and future high-resolution gridded emission inventory of anthropogenic air pollutants for urban air quality studies in Hanoi, Vietnam25
Characterization and sources of fine carbonaceous aerosol in winter over a megacity on Indo-Gangetic plain25
Air quality simulation with WRF-Chem over southeastern Brazil, part I: Model description and evaluation using ground-based and satellite data25
Obituary - Prof. George Kallos25
Modeling the impact of land use/land cover (LULC) factors on diurnal and nocturnal Urban Heat Island (UHI) intensities using spatial regression models25
Urban form, land use, and cover change and their impact on carbon emissions in the Monterrey Metropolitan area, Mexico24
Microclimatic coupling to assess the impact of crossing urban form on outdoor thermal comfort in temperate oceanic climate24
Urban park's vertical canopy structure and its varied cooling effect under continuous warming climate24
Combined effects of thermal and acoustic environments on outdoor human comfort in university campus24
The effects of meteorological parameters on PM10: Health impacts assessment using AirQ+ model and prediction by an artificial neural network (ANN)24
A hybrid method for assessing the city emission status toward carbon peak24
Source apportionment of PM2.5 before and after COVID-19 lockdown in an urban-industrial area of the Lisbon metropolitan area, Portugal24
Machine learning applications on air temperature prediction in the urban canopy layer: A critical review of 2011–202224
Do large, educated, left-leaning cities really adopt more climate change policies? Testing for potential bias in planning and policy research24
A comparative analysis of the sea breeze on the Texas Gulf Coast and its impact on precipitation24
Source apportionment and light absorption properties of black and brown carbon aerosols in the Brahmaputra River valley region23
An integration of soil characteristics by using GIS based Geostatistics and multivariate statistics analysis Sultan Batheri block, Wayanad District, India23
Changes in human heat discomfort and its drivers in Bangladesh23
Impact of urbanization induced land use and land cover change on ecological space quality- mapping and assessment in Delhi (India)23
Machine learning-based estimation of gaseous and particulate emissions using internally observable vehicle operating parameters23
Detecting local climate zone change and its effects on PM10 distribution using fuzzy machine learning in Tehran, Iran23
Pathways to mitigate household carbon emissions in Chinese cities: Intentions, actions, and environments23
Measuring and modeling the effects of green barriers on the spatial distribution of fine particulate matter at roadside23
Urban water infrastructure: A critical review on climate change impacts and adaptation strategies23
Does the spatial configuration of urban parks matter in ameliorating extreme heat?23
Residential indoor thermal environment investigation and analysis on energy saving of air conditioning in hot summer and warm winter zone in China23
“Investigating and mapping day-night urban heat island and its driving factors using Sentinel/MODIS data and Google Earth Engine. Case study: Greater Cairo, Egypt”23
Comparing universal thermal climate index (UTCI) with selected thermal indices to evaluate outdoor thermal comfort in traditional courtyards with BWh climate23
Local microclimate above shrub and grass in tropical city: A case study in Singapore23
Impact of refined 2D/3D urban morphology on hourly air temperature across different spatial scales in a snow climate city22
Combined nonlinear effects of urbanization and economic growth on CO2 emissions in Malaysia. An application of QARDL and KRLS22
Ventilation analysis of urban functional zoning based on circuit model in Guangzhou in winter, China22
High resolution modelling of the urban heat island of 100 European cities22
Compound effects in complex estuary-ocean interaction region under various combination patterns of storm surge and fluvial floods22
Supporting urban adaptation to climate change: What role can resilience measurement tools play?22
Source apportionment of black carbon over Delhi: A case study of extreme biomass burning events and Diwali festival22
Importance of temporal dimension and rural land cover when computing surface urban Heat Island intensity22
Review on thermal behavior of cool pavements22
Role of morphology and chemical composition of PM for particle deposition in human respiratory system: A case study over megacity-Delhi22
Effect of green blue spaces on the urban thermal environment: A field study in Hong Kong22
How urbanization shapes the ecosystem carbon sink of vegetation in China: A spatiotemporal analysis of direct and indirect effects22
The simulation of the impact of the spatial distribution of vegetation on the urban microclimate: A case study in Mostaganem22
Stereoscopic urban morphology metrics enhance the nonlinear scale heterogeneity modeling of UHI with explainable AI22
Assessing effects of non-point source pollution emission control schemes on Beijing's sub-center with a water environment model22
WRF-based scenario experiment research on urban heat island: A review22
The concentration of BTEX in selected urban areas of Malaysia during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown22
Hydrochemical characteristics, hydrochemical processes and recharge sources of the geothermal systems in Lanzhou City, northwestern China22
Estimation of air pollution removal capacity by urban vegetation from very high-resolution satellite images in Lithuania21
Weighted clustering-based risk assessment on urban rainstorm and flood disaster21
Assessment of air pollution tolerance index of Murraya paniculata (L.) Jack in Kolkata metro city, West Bengal, India21
NOx emissions by real-world fresh and old asphalt mixtures: Impact of temperature, relative humidity, and UV-irradiation21
Remote sensing and GIS based multi-criteria analysis approach with application of AHP and FAHP for structures suitability of rainwater harvesting structures in Lai Nullah, Rawalpindi, Pakistan21
Observing the impact of urban morphology and building geometry on thermal environment by high spatial resolution thermal images21
Seasonal and diurnal variability of a water body's effects on the urban microclimate in a coastal city in Italy21
Ozone sensitivity factor: NOX or NMHCs?: A case study over an urban site in Delhi, India21
Predicting spatial and temporal changes in surface urban heat islands using multi-temporal satellite imagery: A case study of Tehran metropolis21
Climate change transformation in built environments – A policy instrument framework21
Characteristics of atmospheric pollution and the impacts of environmental management over a megacity, northwestern China21
Evaluating the role of the albedo of material and vegetation scenarios along the urban street canyon for improving pedestrian thermal comfort outdoors21
Three-step neural network approach for predicting monsoon flood preparedness and adaptation: Application in urban communities of Lahore, Pakistan21
MODIS-based climatology of the Surface Urban Heat Island at country scale (Romania)21
Flood risk assessment of loss of life for a coastal city under the compound effect of storm surge and rainfall21
An analytical approximation of urban heat and dry islands and their impact on convection triggering21
Assessing the role of evapotranspiration in reducing surface temperatures in Harare using the SEBAL algorithm21
Evaluation of the impact of intensive PM2.5 reduction policy in Seoul, South Korea using machine learning20
Groundwater susceptibility assessment using the GIS based DRASTIC-LU model in the Noyyal river area of South India20
The influence of governance structure on local resilience: Enabling and constraining factors for climate change adaptation in practice20
The influences of 2D/3D urban morphology on land surface temperature at the block scale in Chinese megacities20
Tropospheric ozone variability in Delhi during pre & post monsoon periods: Decoding influence of seasonal variation, diurnal variation, short-range and long-range transport20
Progress on green infrastructure for urban cooling: Evaluating techniques, design strategies, and benefits20
Most tolerant roadside tree species for urban settings in humid tropics based on Air Pollution Tolerance Index20
Impervious surface growth and its inter-relationship with vegetation cover and land surface temperature in peri-urban areas of Delhi20
Prediction of PM2.5 concentration in Ulaanbaatar with deep learning models20
Rapid urbanization and climate change significantly contribute to worsening urban human thermal comfort: A national 183-city, 26-year study in China20
Nature-based solutions on the coast in face of climate change: The case of Benidorm (Spain)20
Assessment of pollutant dispersion in deep street canyons under different source positions: Numerical simulation20
Divergent impact of urban 2D/3D morphology on thermal environment along urban gradients19
Study on the effect of timestep and thermography method for pavement watering technology19
A new method for detecting urban morphology effects on urban-scale air temperature and building energy consumption under mesoscale meteorological conditions19
Impact of photonic properties of a new radiative cooling material on the urban heat island and the radiation balance19
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